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This week I burned my way through season one of Scandal on Netflix. Love! The best part of the show is the main character Olivia Pope, played by Kerry Washington. She’s uber-capable, confident, loyal and smart as hell – and also an amazing dresser.

As much as I love her style, I found myself thinking about the difficulty of wearing her outfits on a bike. She favors crisp white suits, sky high platform heels and wide leg pants.

So I put together my own interpretation of bike-friendly Olivia Popeness. I swapped out her wide-legged trousers for slim pants or a skirt to avoid chain disasters, her towering stilettos for pedal-friendly wedges, and her Prada bag for a Po Campo bag. I had to keep the white trench coat, so watch out for grease!

As much as I love the ease of dresses, in recent months the siren song of separates has been calling to me. Not having the perfect pair of jean shorts is starting to get to me. Luckily August is the best time to find such items in the thrift store, so I’m going to cross my fingers and take a shopping trip sometime soon.

If I do find those shorts, here’s the sort of thing I’d want to wear with them, while riding Le Peug of course.

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